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La Vivienda Colectiva De Los Yanomami, Graziano Gasparini, Luise Margolies
La Vivienda Colectiva De Los Yanomami, Graziano Gasparini, Luise Margolies
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
This article on the shapono, the traditional dwelling of the Yanomami, is taken from our book, Arquitectura Indígena de Venezuela. The Yanomami are one of the three indigenous groups of the tropical forest region of lowland Venezuela who build large collective dwellings that house the entire community. In contrast to the neighboring Ye’kwana and Wôthuha, who inhabit closed structures located near large waterways, the Yanomami are forest people whose traditional shapono is a structure opening onto a large central patio. Here, we examine the cultural division of space into private, semiprivate, and public areas in the context of Yanomami …
Steps To A Political Ecology Of Amazonia, Steven L. Rubenstein
Steps To A Political Ecology Of Amazonia, Steven L. Rubenstein
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Many recent studies of Amazonia have documented the ways in which agents of the state or capital seek to colonize not only indigenous land and labor, but indigenous desires as well. This colonization of the third kind has disastrous consequences: recently, William Fisher asked, “Why ... did it seem that Xikrin would sell their grandchildren’s environmental birthright just at the moment when reservations were finally being demarcated and boundaries guaranteed for generations to come?” Here I argue that this sort of question must become one of the central concerns of Amazonian ethnology. Drawing on work by Fisher and others, I …
The Devil And The Land Of The Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery And Popular Religion In Colonial Brazil, Stephen Selka
The Devil And The Land Of The Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery And Popular Religion In Colonial Brazil, Stephen Selka
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Book review of The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross: Witchcraft, Slavery and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil. Laura de Mello e Souza. Translated by Diane Grosklaus Whitty. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. xxiii + 350 pp., tables, notes, glossary, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-292-7023601.
Histories And Historicities In Amazonia, Minna Opas
Histories And Historicities In Amazonia, Minna Opas
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Book review of Histories and Historicities in Amazonia. Neil L. Whitehead, editor. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xx + 236 pp., maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8032-9817-X.
Amazon Sweet Sea: Land, Life, And Water At The River’S Mouth, Alf Hornborg
Amazon Sweet Sea: Land, Life, And Water At The River’S Mouth, Alf Hornborg
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Book review of Amazon Sweet Sea: Land, Life, and Water at the River’s Mouth. Nigel J.H. Smith. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. xii + 296 pp., plates, map, notes, appendix, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-292-77770-1.
Beneath The Equator: Cultures Of Desire, Male Homosexuality, And Emerging Gay Communities In Brazil; Travestí: Sex, Gender And Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes, James R. Welch
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
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Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil. Richard Parker. New York: Routledge, 1999. xvi + 288 pp., plates, maps, tables, notes, appendices, bibliography, index. $85.00 (cloth), $22.95 (paper). ISBN 0-415-91619-4, 0-415-91620-8.
Travestí: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. Don Kulick. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xi + 269 pp., notes, references, index. $50.00 (cloth), $20.00 (paper). ISBN 0-226-46099-1, 0-226-46100-9.
Deforestation And Land Use In The Amazon, David L. Clawson
Deforestation And Land Use In The Amazon, David L. Clawson
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Book review of Deforestation and Land Use in the Amazon. Charles H. Wood and Roberto Porro, editors. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002. xiii + 385 pp., index. $75.00 (cloth), $34.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8130-2464-1, ISBN 0-8130-2465-X.
Perspectival Anthropology And The Method Of Controlled Equivocation, Eduardo Viveiros De Castro
Perspectival Anthropology And The Method Of Controlled Equivocation, Eduardo Viveiros De Castro
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
This article argues that doing anthropology means comparing anthropologies. Comparison is not just our primary analytic tool, it is also our raw material and our ultimate grounding, since what we compare are always and necessarily, in one form or other, comparisons. If, as Marilyn Strathern suggests, culture consists in the way people draw analogies between different domains of their worlds, then every culture is a multidimensional process of comparison. Likewise, if anthropology studies culture through culture, then, following Roy Wagner, whatever operations characterize our investigations must also be general properties of culture. Intracultural relations, or internal comparisons, and intercultural relations, …
Amazonia: Territorial Struggles On Perennial Frontiers, Donald Pollock
Amazonia: Territorial Struggles On Perennial Frontiers, Donald Pollock
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Book review of Amazonia: Territorial Struggles on Perennial Frontiers. Paul Little. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. xv + 298 pp., glossary, notes, field interviews, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8018-6661-8.
Kinship With Monkeys: The Guajá Foragers Of Eastern Amazonia, Nancy Flowers
Kinship With Monkeys: The Guajá Foragers Of Eastern Amazonia, Nancy Flowers
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Book review of Kinship with Monkeys: The Guajá Foragers of Eastern Amazonia. Loretta A. Cormier. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. xxvi + 234 pp., notes, references, index. ISBN 0-231-12525-9.
History, Ethnography, And Politics In Amazonia: Implications Of Diachronic And Synchronic Variability In Marubo Politics, Javier Ruedas
History, Ethnography, And Politics In Amazonia: Implications Of Diachronic And Synchronic Variability In Marubo Politics, Javier Ruedas
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
The idea that indigenous Amazonian societies have been and are essentially egalitarian has been criticized in recent years. This essay critiques frameworks for the study of power in lowland South America by examining diachronic and synchronic variation in Marubo political organization. First, I analyze change over time in Marubo politics and how it relates to population fluctuations linked to contact situations. Based on this analysis, I argue that the small, atomized villages that twentieth-century anthropologists perceived as typifying indigenous Amazonia were products of the historical processes of political organization. Next, I show that leaders of different Marubo villages range from …
The Guaraní Under Spanish Rule In The Río De La Plata, Bret Gustafson
The Guaraní Under Spanish Rule In The Río De La Plata, Bret Gustafson
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Book review of The Guaraní Under Spanish Rule in the Río de la Plata. Barbara Ganson. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003. xii + 290pp., maps, illustrations, appendices, glossary, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0-8047-3602-2.
The Festive State: Race, Ethnicity, And Nationalism As Cultural Performance, Kathryn A. Hudepohl
The Festive State: Race, Ethnicity, And Nationalism As Cultural Performance, Kathryn A. Hudepohl
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Book review of The Festive State: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism as Cultural Performance. David M. Guss. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. ix + 240 pp., illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $18.95 (paper), $48.00 (cloth).ISBN 0-620-22331-4, 0-520-20289-9.
Darrell A. Posey (1947-2001), Warren M. Hern
Darrell A. Posey (1947-2001), Warren M. Hern
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
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Models Of Cosmic Order: Physical Expression Of Sacred Space Among The Ancient Maya, Jennifer P. Mathews, J. F. Garber
Models Of Cosmic Order: Physical Expression Of Sacred Space Among The Ancient Maya, Jennifer P. Mathews, J. F. Garber
Sociology & Anthropology Faculty Research
The archaeological record, as well as written texts, oral traditions, and iconographic representations, express the Maya perception of cosmic order, including the concepts of quadripartite division and layered cosmos. The ritual act of portioning and layering created spatial order and was used to organize everything from the heavens to the layout of altars. These acts were also metaphors for world creation, world order, and establishing the center as a position of power and authority. This article examines the articulations of these concepts from the level of caches to the level of regions from the past and present in an attempt …